Colorado Rockies 2023 Season Preview
In the midst of a 68-94 season, the Colorado Rockies only used 43 different players. This wasn’t a case of injury or a season filled with minor league debuts of note. This was just a bad, bad baseball team. The sad part is that the 2023 season doesn’t look a whole lot different.
There is no incentive for Colorado to go on a wild spending spree. It is also just inherently difficult to do that because pitchers don’t want to go play in the thin air and hitters don’t want to deal with the challenges that come with going from high elevation at home to sea level on the road, as most Rockies hitters end up with lopsided splits. But, even if the Rockies could go all “drunken sailor”, there’s no reason to right now. Competing with the Dodgers and Padres is a pipe dream.
For a team that lost 94 games and largely limited prospect upside, the additions for this season are Mike Moustakas, Harold Castro, Nolan Jones, Connor Seabold, Pierce Johnson, Brad Hand, Brent Suter and Nick Mears. Under money hit the board quickly at some books that opened their season win total as high as 70, but it now sits at 65.5, nine games lower than the Diamondbacks and 16 games lower than the Giants.